Harlem Globetrotters, Bill Duke, BET Program, and Celebrity Doctors to Contribute | Down Low, Steppin, Hood and Ghetto Lifestyles, and Sports Legacies Included | Exclusive focus on Documentaries Related to Urban Lifestyles and Issues.
Washington, D.C. -- Next Generation Awareness Foundation, Inc. (501(c)(3)) (NGAF), producers of the Black History Month Film & Discussion Series and the Urban Film Series Tour, appear today that Landmark Theatre will host the First Annual Black Docs Film Series. Black Docs will be be produced from May through August, at Landmark Theatre's E Street Cinema, amid at 555 11th Street, NW, Washington, DC. All associates of the accessible are arrive to appear and abutment the May 25th aperture featuring the Official Public Premiere of the Harlem Globetrotters' afresh completed documentary, The Team That Changed The World. Tickets prices ambit from $7.50 - $10.50 and can be purchased at Landmark Theatre. The four-month fundraising accident will account NGAF's accessible association programming and advice forward its 2007 Urban Film Series Tour to underserved communities in the United States.
Sticking accurate to the adage of Connecting Communities with History and Progressive Cinema, Black Docs is the alone affairs of its affectionate in that it focuses alone on documentaries accompanying to burghal lifestyles and issues. "The affairs has been in development for over a year due to the over 150 above submissions we accept accustomed for the anniversary February tour," says Corey Jennings, architect and activity coordinator. "Many filmmakers accept little or no programs accessible that accommodate acknowledgment to documentaries of this sort," says Jennings.
Who: Next Generation Awareness Foundation, Inc.
What: 1st Annual Black Docs Film Series
Where: Landmark Theatre's E Street Cinema
When: May 25th, June 29th, July 27th and August 24th, from 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Tickets: Students/Seniors: $7.50; Adults: $10.50; Group Rate (4 or more): $9. Prices may alter per month.
Official Black Docs Schedule
May 25 – Basketball ~ The Official Public Premiere
Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed The World (2005)
Invited Guests: Coaches John Thompson II & III
About the Documentary: The new award-winning documentary about the aggregation that defied all challenges and authentic the role of boyhood athletes in ball and sports. Winner of a 2006 Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism. Narrated by Chuck D, featuring celebrity interviews and footage with Phil Jackson, Henry Kissinger, David Stern, Larry Brown, John Chaney, Bill Cosby, Bob Cousy, Connie Hawkins, Samuel L. Jackson, Magic Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Isiah Thomas and others. Witness how, in 1948, the all-black Globetrotters challenged and took on the all-white World Champion Minneapolis Lakers amidst a adverse altitude of allegory and discrimination, and their celebrated cruise to Cold War Berlin in 1951 as ambassadors of democracy. Website: www.HarlemGlobeTrotters.com
June 29 – Down Low ~ The Official Premiere Screening
Project W.O.W.: A Look Into the Lives of Men Having Sex With Men (as apparent on BET) (2005)
Featuring a Q&A with Talk Show host and ambassador Lisa Durden, afresh featured interviewing columnist JL King and others on BET.
About the Documentary: A abominable documentary never-before witnessed, acid into the abstruse apple of men accepting sex with men while masquerading as heterosexuals in a alarming action with lives of changeable partners. The advance of HIV/AIDS becomes the assurance in the action addition from bastille to the pulpit. Website: www.LisaDurden.com
July 27 – Ways of Life ~ Two World Premieres
Steppin: A Way of Life
About the Documentary: As bargain accustomed from R. Kelly’s Step to the Name of Love, a Chicago amphitheater ball that is added than a style, but a way of activity for many.
Hot Ghetto Mess
About the Documentary: A documentary anecdotal by DC’s own Lazy Lamont, above co-host of the Russ Parr Morning Show. Featuring the plan of one of America’s a lot of accepted websites which challenges the African American association with how it is analytic and acting, including some of the a lot of amusing and al of a sudden base presentations. You accept apparent America’s Funniest Home Videos, now see Hot Ghetto Mess and you will never, anytime discount this program. Website: www.HotGhettoMess.com
Featuring a Brief Q&A with filmmakers Mel Devonne (Steppin: A Way of Life) and Jam Donaldson (Hot Ghetto Mess).
August 24 – Perseverance ~ Mid-Atlantic Premiere
The Pact: Three Young Men Make A Promise And Fulfill A Dream (2006)
Featuring a Q&A with The Doctors and The Spark Media and Duke Media (Bill Duke) Team, including filmmaker Andrea Kalin.
About the Documentary: From the NY Times Bestseller, comes a gritty, annoying true-life adventure of three accompany from the 'hood, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, and George Jenkins, who fabricated a alliance in top academy to acquisition a way to go to academy and again medical school. They not alone able this, but they're now overextension the chat to affect added burghal kids to break off of drugs, out of gangs and to crop the educational avenue to a bigger life. THE PACT captures the desolation of the men's alone journeys, the candor of their choir and the ability of their attenuate friendship. Their belief advance the ethics that ultimately abiding and collection them: courage, tenacity, and faith. And they accord accolade to the activity of the apperception and its ability to about-face dreams into reality. Website: www.thepactthemovie.com
From the Filmmakers: "The appulse of this documentary goes far above its feel-good message: this is a blur that presents absolute images of Black men who accept accomplished success not because of their adeptness to rap or play ball, but because of harder plan and their following of education. The Pact is not addition 'ghetto success story'. What's altered is that clashing a lot of humans who able the 'hood', the three doctors came aback by choice," says Bill Duke.
"In our celebrity-obsessed world, George, Sam and Rameck are absolute activity heroes whom kids can attending up to as role models. Real-life belief don't get abundant added inspiring. By cogent it like it is, by talking about their abounding mistakes alternating the way, the three doctors empower adolescence to accept in themselves, to accept that they can dream big too, no amount what the obstacles," says Andrea Kalin.
Visit www.InsiderEntertainment.com, NGAF's official business resource, or UrbanFilmSeries.com, for added and to apprentice about the cities, films, capacity and participants called for this year's series.
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